Trails!

Cabo San Lucas - 

I went on vacation with my wife, my parents (to their time-share) and my sister and her husband.  We enjoyed ourselves greatly and especially enjoyed the nice temps (70's and 80's).  I will post some pictures when I finally make it home (I am writing this while at the in-laws in SLC).  The were good enough to watch our kids for a week, but we were sure happy to see them again.  As for training this week, I didn't do so hot.  It was more important to be with family and have fun then run.  Plus it made my family nervous to be out running for hours in a foreign country.  I did what I could. 

Today, I attempted to run on the beach where I was staying, but that lasted about 25 mins before my feet turned to mush.  It was hard work.  The flat part of the beach was deep soft sand and the hard sand near the water was too sloped to be able to run well.  Plus, when the waves came, I was running in 6 inches of water and mud.  Scratch that plan.  2.5 miles at an effort closer to 5.

I went swimming in the ocean later body surfing on Divorce beach.  Fun stuff.  I got beat up pretty good.  I am counting as 5 miles of Cross Training.

Today instead of the beach, I hit the treadmill in the fitness center at the Hotel / Resort.  It was busy, so they limited you to 30 mins on the treadmill.  I made decent use of the time getting in 4.25 miles before I was kicked off.  Rather than wait my turn again, I ran outside where it was cooler due to the breeze and finished off to get in 5.  We managed to get in some more serious beach/pool time before renting some quads and hitting the trails around the baja.  Fun stuff.

5 miles running

5 miles cross-training

Today I got up at 5:30 to go deep sea fishing.  Not a bad setup, we split a boat rental with 6 of us and headed out to the local fishing grounds with our captain and his mate in-charge.  After close to 3 hours of 5-10 foot swells, I was not feeling to hot.  I spent a large amount of time standing up with the waves crashing over me trying not to puke.  Maybe next time, I will take some dramamine or something.  I was the only one to lose my breakfast, but once that happened, I was good for the rest of the day.  We ended up being very successful in our fishing adventures and had a blast.  Our captain was very good at what he does and set up up to catch some real fish.  We caught and released 4 marlin, but kept the 3 Dorado we caught (I brought in a medium sized Dorado).  Pretty sweet experience, but extremely tiring trying to not get thrown overboard and ride the waves all day.  We did enjoy our catch for dinner though.

Counting that ordeal as 10 cross training miles since I was more tired than after a 20 miler.

Will post pics of our fishing later...

AM: 7 miles around Cabo exploring the roads and dodging cars.  Tough on the feet as everything is shaped concrete.  Very un-even and un-forgiving.  I enjoyed it though.  

T-52:20 (7:28) 7 miles

PM: Massive amounts of swimming/sun

AM: More exploring around Cabo.  I did do some laps around a large dirt soccer field with the locals to help out the feet.  

T-48:00  (7:23) 6.5 miles

PM: The waves at Divorce beach were higher today so the workout was extreme. 

Last day at Cabo.  Bummer.  I got in 5 easy miles around town before packing up and heading out.  Great trip!  

T-37:00 (7:24) 5 miles